Fashion Icons, Interior Designers Share Space

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As runways were being assembled for the launch of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center the other day, fashion designer Elie Tahari was three blocks away in a glass-walled condominium on the Hudson River looking over an installation of mid-century furniture and textured grass-cloth wallpaper.

Down the hall, Diane Von Furstenberg, another big name in the fashion industry, was working on transforming a sprawling living room with river views into a complete studio apartment with a wavy striped brown-and-white rug, and a bedroom area just big enough to showcase her new designer collection of sheets and towels.

While the models prepare to strut at Lincoln Center, a group of fashion designers working with interior decorators have taken over five riverview apartments at the Aldyn, a new glass-walled condominium nearing completion on Riverside Boulevard and West 63rd Street, and redesigned them.

The "show house of fashionable interiors" is an unusual convergence of fashion, interior design and unabashed real-estate marketing all in the name of charity, timed to coincide with New York's major fall fashion event.

Organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America to benefit HIV/AIDS organizations and breast-cancer research, it is also intended to launch sales at the Aldyn, a condo development that's hitting the market following a tumble in prices of new condominiums. Developer Gary Barnett already has decided to keep half of the units in the buildings as rentals.

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